US 12,345,882 B2
Electronic devices with rearward-facing sensors
Michael J. Oudenhoven, San Francisco, CA (US); Brian S Lau, Sacramento, CA (US); Cameron A Harder, San Francisco, CA (US); Depeng Wang, San Jose, CA (US); and Vikrant Bhakta, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/335,671.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/391,544, filed on Jul. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0027753 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G02B 17/08 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0093 (2013.01) [G02B 17/086 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. A head-mounted device, comprising:
a head-mounted support having a housing frame and having a ring-shaped trim member inserted into the housing frame;
a lens mounted to the ring-shaped trim member and through which external objects are viewable from an eye box, wherein the lens has a protrusion that protrudes laterally from a peripheral edge of the lens; and
a gaze tracking camera, wherein the protrusion has a surface facing the gaze tracking camera, wherein the surface is concave or convex, wherein the gaze tracking camera is configured to monitor the eye box through the surface of the protrusion of the lens, and wherein the surface of the protrusion overlaps the ring-shaped trim member.